NASA’s first asteroid sample-return mission is in the home stretch toward its home planet. The agency’s OSIRIS-REx...
Science & Astronomy
Upper atmosphere phenomena known as subauroral ion drifts sometimes produce visible ribbons of light in the sky,...
When they went to the moon, Apollo astronauts placed seismometers on the surface. Those instruments strikingly revealed...
Frank Rubio didn’t set out to break a record, but today aboard the International Space Station (ISS),...
On Sept. 11, 1985, the International Cometary Explorer, or “ICE” became the first spacecraft to fly by...
Among the many major threats that astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) contend with daily, an...
A globular cluster glitters with starlight in a new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope. Located 15,000...
Four astronauts will make a trip around the moon in 2024 or so. It’s the first lunar...
Venus was at inferior conjunction on Aug. 13, in line between the Earth and the sun. Now...
Planning is well underway for NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), which will scour the atmospheres of planets...
